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Valentine’s Day Boozy Desserts

Imbibe Magazine

Chocolate Brandy Sabayn This chocolate mousse gets a boozy boost with a dose of brandy. Red Wine Velvet Cake Have your cake and drink it, too, with this decadent twist on the classic. Bourbon and Maple Chocolate Truffles A show-stopping holiday treat. Campari Shake Chocolate not your thing?

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Brandy and Cognac Trends for 2024

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What goes up must come down, and thats been the case with the brandy and Cognac category. Volume consumption for the brandy and Cognac category declined 10.2% Just one of the leading brands, Sazeracs Paul Masson brandy, posted growth in 2023, and that was a scant 0.3% in 2023 to pre-Covid levels of 12.8

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Review: Tin City Distillery Flavored Vodkas and Wine Shine Brandy Manhattan

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While the region is known for its wine production, there’s a thriving craft distilling scene here, too. Coverage of one RTD cocktail from the Wine Shine label also follows. Aromas of chocolate and walnut manage to push through the hearty oxidized wine notes, with a layer of allspice and, curiously, some saffron in the mix.

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Review: Napa Valley Brandy Co. Solera Gold

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Solera Gold is a new brandy from Napa Valley Brandy Co., which in itself is a new entrant into the burgeoning world of California brandy. What, with all the grapes being grown here, they needn’t all end up in table wine, right? California brandies can be exceptional. Let’s give this newcomer a try.

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Review: The Calistoga Star California Brandy 7 Years Old

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The Calistoga Star is a more expected offering from the notable winemaker — a brandy made from California wine grapes, named in honor of San Francisco’s first newspaper, The California Star. Its owner, Samuel Brannan, was also a prolific brandy distiller.) Let’s try it. Nothing fancy, but it grows on you.

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Review: Saison De Frai Smoked Trout Flavored Brandy

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New Hampshire’s Tamworth Distilling, the company behind graveyard tree-sap infused rye , crab whiskey , and a famed venison-flavored whiskey , is back with yet another novelty, this time a brandy, infused with the flavor of smoked trout. Or, more accurately, a trout distillate flavored with apple brandy.

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Review: Patty Green Whiskey Distillers – Brandy, Multifarious, and Purple Karma Pinnacle

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Patricia Green Cellars is one of Oregon’s leading wine producers and now it’s getting into … whiskey! All of them are made at least in part with brandy distilled from Patricia Green’s grapes, a project that started in 2020 when wildfires tainted much of the area’s fruit, leaving unusable for winemaking.

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